It’s more like, those people live completely separate lives from us and feel uncomfortable when they’re required to mingle with us.
Think about it, what do they have in common with us, culturally? Nothing. Many think our culture is disgusting and must be replaced. Others have zero experience outside their carefully curated lives, which started when their parents began their c.v. at age 3. To them, we seem unknowable and unthinkable, they have no more sympathy for us than they think we have for animals in the zoo. They believe they are superior to both elites of the past and the contemporary common folk, at the same time. We are The Other to them, and why the hell would they want to live among us or have any interaction with us whatsoever?
This is what it’s like when our lives collide. “I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because I thought my coworker was kidding when he said he was spending the three-day weekend in Greece. When I finished laughing, four people recommended hotels.”
Specifically with all the silicon valley tech workers, they seem to just want to do whatever they can to get away from the homelessness.
I would love to get rid of the homeless. I don’t like seeing them on the streets shooting up, yelling at people walking by. They are rude, aggressive and scary. They don’t bath and stink up everything. I want them in homes, getting fucked up yelling at people off their balconies instead while they wait for their bath to reach a boil in high quality housing paid by seizing the monopolists money.
This is some fucked up anti-homeless propaganda. You sound like one of those sociopaths on nextdoor, even if you end it with a call to action that would help them. The damage you do by reinforcing the image of the dangerous, drug-addicted homeless person far outweighs the good part imo.
I’m also spending my three day weekends in Greece though. Although unfortunately that is where I’m spending every other day as well.
Feel like trading places? Reality has been disappointing ever since I got back from Greece.
